Alan> On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 15:30, John Stoffel wrote:>> I really think that we need some way to keep such deadlocks from>> happening. I really dislike having a device lockup a user application>> so hard that it can't be exited. There's no real reason we should be>> doing this any more. If we have to, let the user kill it and just>> have the kernel make it into a zombie, but at least let the user kill>> it off.

Alan> If you had to reboot file a bug, none of the block errorAlan> recovery code or below should ever hang indefinitely.

Once I can reproduce it reliably, I'll send a better report. I'vebeen holding off on my comments til now, but got caught up in themoment.

I also know now that it should timeout and come back to life. I evenhad a back trace on the hung process, but didn't save it. Mea cupla.-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.orgMore majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/